IMPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 31, 7 February 1899, Page 4

IMPORTS.

Per Pukaki, from Westport: 1640 tons coal. Per Elingamite from Sydney: 140 pkgs tea, 205 cases benzine, 1459 sacks bones, 5 crates melons, 12 cases fruit, 1700 bags bonedust, 70 sacks manure, 176 ingots tin, 40 cases 44 crates 93 bags bottles, 400 bags salt, 200 bags kainit, 400 bags sugar, 40 steel plates, 100 cases brandy, 250 bags bark, 50 boxes dates, 50 boxes tin plates, SO reels lead rod, 11 boxes cornflour, 10 stamper shoes, 30 cases canned fruit, 18 pkgs furniture, 6 pkgs wire, 24 cases periodicals, 2 casks alum, 2 anchors, 3 cases mangles, 14 cases boots and shoes, 6 baths, 4 cases black lead, 21 cases drugs, 2 bicycles, 1 case postholes, and sundries. The s.s. Westralia left for Sydney last ievening. The barque Star of the East commences her loading, of kauri gum to-morrow. _ The brigantine Defiance has been fixed to load coal at Newcastle for Auckland. The barque Onyx is now on her way from the Bluff to this port with a cargo of. grain. The barque Peru completed her loading of kauri gum for New York to-day, and will shortly sail. The barquenttoie Handa Isle left for the Kaipara this morning to load timber for Sydney. On discharge she loads coal at Newcastle for the Kaipara. The steamer Pakeha dropped down to the powder ground yesterday afternoon, and after taking in consignments of. Southern powder left for Gisborne at 7.30 p.m. The s.s. Waihora does not leave Dunedin until to-morow, and is not expected to reach this port until Monday morning next. She leaves for Sydney in the evening. The barquentine Margarita has arrived at Adelaide from Mauritius. On discharge she loads for Dunedin, coming on to Auckland with a cargo of grain and produce. The Norwegian barquentine Niels Ribe, on "her voyage from Gilbert Island to Sydney, had a narrow escape from wreck. She was sailing with a fair, wind when the look-out cried, 'Breakers ahead!' Captain Christensen had but a few minutes before consulted the chart, on which nothing nearer than the New Caledonian coast, 250 miles away,' was noted. On going aloft he-saw the white crests of the breakers extending two or three miles across his track. The rocks ■ may be of recent origin, the result of a submarine eruption. The position is 159.47 long., and 20.55 south lat., directly in the track of vessels from New Caledonia to Sydney.

THE PUKAKI. The s.s.. Pukaki'arrived from Westport last night with a cargo of coal.